Philosophy of the Machine 4
Jan 18, 2023•30 min
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Episode description
This chapter tells of the origin of the god Zeus, who was originally Zeus metallon, a metallurgical godhead reflecting the social practices of mining and metal extraction. Underpinning Jacques Lacan's beautiful remark: the gods are from the field of the real.
Vertigo of the Proteus. Swindle of Art. That behind every realization, a universe of discarded possibilities opens up: all the possible worlds that have not been realized.
From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)
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